id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8465 P. F. Strawson - Wikipedia .html text/html 3386 532 55 In philosophical methodology, there are (at least) two important and interrelated features of Strawson's work that are worthy of note.[6] The first is the project of a 'descriptive' metaphysics, and the second is his notion of a shared conceptual scheme, composed of concepts operated in everyday life. That golden age had no greater philosopher than Sir Peter Strawson."[7] In its obituary, The Times of London described him as a "philosopher of matchless range who made incisive, influential contributions to problems of language and metaphysics."[8] The author went on to say: Few scholars achieve lasting fame as dramatically as did the philosopher Sir Peter Strawson. By 1950 Strawson, then a Fellow of University College, Oxford, was already a respected tutor and a promising member of the group of younger Oxford dons whose careful attention to the workings of natural languages marked them out as 'linguistic' philosophers. "Propositions, Concepts and Logical Truths" (Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 7, 1957) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8465.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8465.txt